Bioshock: Infinite unveiled!

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Enigma6667

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Great trailer, but I'm rather underwhelmed. I'm pretty sure we haven't seen it all yet. I read a 1UP interview with Ken Levine, and despite what the trailer leads you to believe, this is actually much more than just "Bioshock in the sky". We have a main character that actually has a personality, a different kind of atmosphere (Really bright and colorful in comparison to Bioshock 1 & 2's grimy dark underwater vibe), new types of powers (Centered around psychic abilities) and a theme about American idealism (The city, which is being called Columbia, is actually more like a Death Star than an actual city).

Color me interested, but I was more looking forward to an original IP.
 

TheTaco007

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I'm a big Bioshock fan, but... Um... what?

Does this have anything to do with the Bioshock series?
 

Evilsanta

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It really looks interresting, but why still have the label Bioshock when its not set in Rapture?

And a flying city? Wtf? Isnt that going a little to far.
 
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TheNamlessGuy said:
Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
I personally think this looks pretty god damn awesome. If I had to guess, I'd say it's some sort of alternate future where Adam gets out to the rest of the world.
Only he wouldn't be born yet.

MY THEORY IS FOOLPROOF.
I know, I know. I hadn't read the synopsis when I said that.
 

imnot

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Knight of Cydonia said:
...and I won't be able to handle all those American flags.
same.
it looks good, but i dont know about the sky thing, i mean thats not exactly very innavative.
 

Assassin Xaero

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TheTaco007 said:
I'm a big Bioshock fan, but... Um... what?

Does this have anything to do with the Bioshock series?
Maybe it is a prequel and has Andrew Ryan's dad who tells him that sky cities are stupid and underwater cities are the future? Then there is some rebellion and he dies then Andrew Ryan voes to live out his dad's dream? Or maybe the name is just a selling point and has nothing to do with the original... kinda like with Quake and Quake II.
 

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I enjoyed the first game, thought it was damn good. Even though I had the story (And major twist) spoiled for me. I enjoyed the second one too, almost even more than the first one, mostly becasue I didn't have the story spoiled for me. So I'm hopeful for this new installment. Love the new setting, not the new name though, although that can change. Looking at you "project nahtal".

I just feel like the first game was so good, it's hard for any sequel to top it, because even if they're Really good they'll always be compared to the original. It's like with Spore, it might have been fun but since it was developed by the same guy who did "the Sims" it'll get compared to that instead of standing on it's own. Well Yahtzee can't blame Irrational for being uncreative in their new setting. :)
Looking forward to it.
 

Therumancer

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Looks interesting, to be honest without knowing much about it it's hard to say when it's set given that if it's a soceity where someone build "a city in the clouds" at an earlier time period it's conventions might be from an earlier time.

That said, there is nothing at all "Steampunk" about it at all, not one bit of punk to be seen anywhere. Retro-future perhaps, but not Steampunk. I am REALLY beginning to hate the term "Steampunk" and how people throw it around nowadays. I think some people really need to expose themselves to some 1980s culture to get the right idea. Look at some actual punks, or the fashions worn in say "Friday the 13th: The Series" (who were by and large not punks, though a few did show up) to get the idea of how things should look both for ordinary people and punks. Then add the retro-future technology, that should look less like it was riveted together by an old world metal worker, but like it was welded together by some dude with a mohawk and a chainsaw, even if the functionality is similar. That's Steampunk. Not one example of big 80s hair in that entire trailer, and no self respecting punk or even one of the bad guys in that kind of fiction would be wearing suits like the ones you see there which are totally normal from an old time period. Add some leopard or tiger print patterns to it, and put some "Sid and Nancy" on the record player for the guy we saw and he might just barely pass. Take the girl give her some skin tight stirrup pants, a baggy shirt bound off at a waist at a wierd angle by a spiked belt of patent leather, increase her amount of hair x10 billowing around her, add some fingerless lace gloves and then she might pass. Replace what appears to be brass with steel and blackened iron, make the rivets more chaotic and uneven, and greatly reduced in number with a lot of the things instead being held together by very obvious and perhaps intentionally sloppy welds. Remove most of the clear geometic shapes and right angles, and make everything look uneven and a bit off so your eyes scream for having to try and find conventional perspective on things even though upon close examination it all does hold together.... then it would be Steampunk. Or basically redo the entire thing.

Oh yes and the robot needs spikes and extraneous serrated razor blades.
 

Mighty the Moose

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Beautiful cinematic... though I have to say that what textured Bioshock's gameplay was the constant feeling of claustrophobia that only an underwater city like Rapture, or a derelict spaceship, can induce. Also, part of what made System Shock 2 so great was it's horror component. Bioshock tried to capture this, but couldn't quite do it. The setting for this game seems to open... maybe the developers have abandoned the horror aspect of the originals, which is a pity.
 

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The premise has potential at least.
So I wonder changes they'll make to plasmids, or there will be any plasmids at all.
Agreed. I'll buy it, but it's too early to tell.
 

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If it doesn't involve Andrew Ryan or Rapture then Bioshock it aint. A new name would have been good.

Having said that I am major psyched for this. I loved both Bioshock games and can't wait for more. The Big Daddy mech thing looked cool but did anyone else think that that heart in it looked like a very exploitable weakpoint?

Also in response to TheNamelessGuy's prequel theory it all sounds vaguely plausable apart from the fact that we see the girl using telekinesis (possibly a plasmid) and up until Tennenbaum found the Adam slugs outside Rapture that was something humanity could only dream of.
 

Micky_PX

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Having watched that, I'm on that same bandwagon of "this ties into Bioshock.. how?" As a standalone game I'm quite interested by it, but bar a nod towards the concept of plasmids and a redesigned would-be Big Daddy, the game looks nothing like it's related to Bioshock, for the simple reason that the heart and soul of Bioshock is Rapture. I can't help but feel like they're making a mistake by naming this game Bioshock. Rather than giving the game a chance to create a soul of its own, it's going to be forced to try and compete and imitate the one already set. In particular, I'll be stunned if it can tie in all of its lore with the already stated Bioshock lore without tearing it to pieces with retconning.

In saying all of that, this game, as a game, looks very beautiful and could be really fun to play. But as a Bioshock prequel, it's very hard for me to get excited for it in the prospect of it being part of the "Bioshock series".
 

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Captain Placeholder said:
...Wow. I have never been more disappointed with the gaming public. Already insulting the game when we have yet to see a SINGLE gameplay video. Jeez people, just wait to see a few videos of how the game will actually play before calling it terrible.
My disappointment also goes out to people when it comes to franchises like this. Here, finally you have a game that tries to do something different (even though mostly in the likes of SS2, but then again SS2 hasn't been done to death like Gears or MW), and all the people that would be complaining about the lack of fresh ideas a second ago will show nothing but contempt now.

Makes me think maybe there is a reason there's 50 million space marine shooters out there, people are just kidding themselves and everyone else around them demanding for something different when all they really want is more of the same.

Anyways, I'm really starting to get tired of "we want SS3" crap too, over 9 years have passed since that game was made. How do you know the third one would be any good? Hell, SS3 might end up sucking far far worse than BS ever did even for all the SS2 fanboys that hated BS, I mean Ken Levine won't be making it, so try wrapping your heads around that.

For instance I've been seeing some gameplay videos of Deus Ex 3, and either than the art style, the gameplay looks like it's going to suck.
 

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TheNamlessGuy said:
Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
I personally think this looks pretty god damn awesome. If I had to guess, I'd say it's some sort of alternate future where Adam gets out to the rest of the world.
Only he wouldn't be born yet.

MY THEORY IS FOOLPROOF.
"He"? as in ADAM? It'd be interesting to see how they got such plasmid-like powers without the little seaslug... or maybe this is an even later sequel. O_O

EDIT: no, apparently it's set in 1912 [http://www.bioshockinfinite.com/main.php] (check the synopsis). Alternate past it is then!
 

Ubermetalhed

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Sigh... this seems like an unneccessary cash-in.

In the sky? Really?? Can we please just have a system shock 3 instead...